Stories in the Books of Samuel and Kings (The Widow of Nabal and the Tekoite Widow) further support the theory that an 'almanah in Israel is a woman without male support. This study extends the argument of the author's earlier study, Making Widows: The Patriarchal Guardian at Work (BTB 27 (1997): 10-15.
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